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Lord, give me a new mind! In the previous section, I gave you general tools to manage the most toxic feelings. Unforgiveness comes in two variants: the poison of bitterness and the poison of pettiness.
Both poisons are fatal to your spirit and to your happiness. Get rid of them! Who is the giant? Not the biggest, or the loudest, or the strongest person in the room. Not the one with the most power, or the one with the most money, or the one with the most anger.
The giant in any room is the one with the most love. When an ant bites the toe of a human being, he flinches. He feels the pain. Let me give you another analogy. Many years ago, when I was a poor missionary, I was walking in Cubao.
Suddenly, a huge man from behind bumped me hard. After a few more minutes of walking, I held my back pocket. To my horror, I realized my wallet had vanished. I had just been robbed. I was devastated. In my wallet was P As a poor missionary, that was like a million pesos for me! Usually, I had P20 in my pocket. If I had P, I already felt rich. So to lose P was very painful. Email: [email protected] Heart Detox Fast-forward almost 30 years later. One day, I was with my wife at a mall, buying bottled water.
I dug through my pocket because I remember having P there. It was gone. Yes, I still felt a loss. I slept soundly that night. But forget about inflation — because it destroys my analogy! I believe that most of our anger, deep down, comes from fear. An angry person is usually afraid. The Bible says that love casts out all fear. Only giants with giant love can be gentle. When you meet mean, angry, negative, sarcastic, rude, arrogant people, you can be percent sure that these people are crying out for love.
Imagine that you have a liter love tank. But broken people in your life have a one-liter love tank. Compared to your love, their love is puny. Think of your father. Your mother. Your spouse. Your friend. Even thirty, forty, or fifty years later! He always had problems with his boss, no matter who he worked for.
But in truth, subconsciously, amidst the changing faces of all his bosses, he really saw only one face — the face of his father. He hated his father. So he hated all father-figures in his life. I urge you: Let go. Some people are proud of their temper.
Email: [email protected] 81 Difficult Emotions 1: Bitterness and Pettiness 82 But temper steals so much joy and blessing from our life. Have you ever said anything stupid because of anger? Have you ever done anything stupid because of anger? How many blessings have you missed and how many relationships have you destroyed and how many open doors have you closed because of your temper?
One day, while walking in a mall, I saw a four-yearold child throwing a tantrum. The kid was screaming at the top of his voice. I can imagine how shameful the mother felt standing beside him.
But I was shocked at what happened next: The mother threw a tantrum too! A bigger one. She screamed louder than the child. She stomped her feet, grabbed her boy and shook him like he was a rag doll. Yes, his tantrum stopped. But that child simply learned that to get what you want, you should throw a bigger tantrum.
Jesus tells us how. Why are they called children of God? Because God is the Greatest Peacemaker. Question: Are you a peacemaker or a troublemaker? The Bible teaches us two ways to become a peacemaker. Are you a foolish person or an honorable person?
But the big person with a big love will bring peace wherever he goes. You need to let it all out. Shout, stomp, punch the wall. Email: [email protected] 83 Difficult Emotions 1: Bitterness and Pettiness anger, the more anger you create.
Switch faucets! Because aggression creates more aggression, but love creates more love. But his bitterness was destroying his family. His wife talked to me and said she was leaving her husband — and she was taking all her children with her. His bitterness has eaten him up. Any love he has for me or for his children is consumed by his anger.
Because your heart is one. You cannot divide your heart into two parts — one part to love and another part to hate. Sooner or later, love or hate will take over your heart and your life. You have to choose. So what should you do? Only God can do that. Believe me, because of the same Law of Reciprocity, his curses bounce back to him. So surrender your case to God. Revenge is foolish.
Never take matters into your own hands. Email: [email protected] 85 Difficult Emotions 1: Bitterness and Pettiness 86 on how to love your enemies.
First, do good to those who hate you. Serve them. Give them a gift. Second, bless those who curse you. Oh, how we love talking about his weaknesses to others! Instead, speak well of him. Speak of the good things in his life. Third, pray for him. Kunin mo na siya, Lord! Pray for his well-being and prosperity.
Believe me, all that goodness you give him will bounce back to you — pressed down, shaken together and running over!
Because you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be free. Forgive without conditions! Forgive whether that person accepts it or not, admits it or not, or apologizes for it or not. Forgive anyway. Love anyway. Give anyway. Because it all bounces back to you, multiplied a hundredfold! God has it all planned out! He will take care of you. Have you ever felt so frustrated, so disappointed, so depressed, you felt like giving up?
Have you ever experienced waking up in the morning already tired? In my life. Hopelessness is very real. So many people want to give up on life. I love telling people about this crazy experiment that a group of psychologists did with a helpless mouse that they threw in a giant tub of water.
If the tub of water was in a windowless room, where the mouse sees nothing else but pitch-black darkness, the mouse would swim for a while but would give up quickly. How quick? It drowns after only three minutes of swimming. But if the giant tub of water was in a room with even one tiny shaft of light — the mouse will keep swimming for an amazing 36 hours! What spelled the difference between three minutes and 36 hours is the power of hope. Without hope, you die. They give up their dreams. They get stuck in their past.
They feel that nothing will change in their miserable life. Email: [email protected] Heart Detox Today, God wants to give you hope. Despair is when you feel helpless; insecurity is when you feel worthless.
Despair is being hopeless about what you see outside you; insecurity is being hopeless about what you see inside you. Both despair and insecurity make you want to do one thing — give up the fight. Throw in the towel. Walk away and die. People are shocked when I tell them that I, too, get depressed. Look at Elijah, the biggest Old Testament prophet in the Bible. The same guy who stood beside Jesus and Moses during the miracle of the Transfiguration.
The same guy who challenged prophets of Baal — and won. Because that gives me hope. The Queen wanted to kill him. One simple event can trigger your despair and insecurity. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.
He felt his work was a big failure. He felt insecure — He felt he was a big failure. And he felt so alone.
Email: [email protected] Heart Detox Sometimes, we feel like Elijah. Perhaps you have a financial problem right now. Or a friend turned against you. Or a family member betrayed you. Or a partner abandoned you.
Or someone you dearly love died on you. Last week, my wife was looking at the old stuff of our kids. Old drawings. Old toys. Old clothes. Like when you retire from your job. Or when your youngest child finally leaves home.
Or when your body shows its age. Thankfully, Elijah was able to get over his depression. And his story gives us three steps to overcome for hopelessness. Email: [email protected] 91 Difficult Emotions 2: Despair and Insecurity Prescription 1: Embrace Your Emotion 92 See how human Elijah was… He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. Depression, I cast thee out, in the mighty name of the Almighty, be gone! Elijah felt his feelings.
He was honest to God. A few hours ago, he was superman. He called down scorching fire from heaven to consume a very wet animal on a drenched altar. But emotions are never logical. Despair, insecurity and hopelessness are never logical. I just want to sleep. I want to stay under my blanket the entire day. This is what happened to Elijah. He ate and drank and then lay down again. Wonder of wonders, God allows Elijah to sleep, eat, and sleep again.
Because God knows that depression is not only psychological but physiological. Sometimes, our spirit is tired because our body is tired.
And the first thing God does is to help us rest. Take a break. Go on a retreat. Lighten your load. Simplify your schedule. And give yourself the gift of perspective. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. Do what Elijah did: Walk! When you walk outdoors, you get three natural anti-depressants that are a thousand times stronger than any pill in the drugstore.
These three natural antidepressants are: 1 sunshine; 2 exercise; and 3 oxygen. Sunlight heals many diseases — it helps our body fight depression, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even combats diabetes and obesity.
Exercise produces feel-good natural chemicals called endorphins that flow through your blood stream. Endorphins produce the same effects as morphine — without the side effects! Oxygen energizes you.
Email: [email protected] Heart Detox Oxygen is the food of your immune system, memory and thinking. It counters aging. It reduces the risk of heart attacks. It calms your mind. It improves digestion. It helps you sleep better. Almost all cancers start with the lack of oxygen. Because of the abnormal supply of oxygen in your heart. Bless your body! Follow your faith! Email: [email protected] 95 Difficult Emotions 2: Despair and Insecurity 96 I repeat: Feel your feelings but follow your faith.
Hopelessness wants you to be stuck in the valley, to live in the valley, to build your home in the valley, and to die in the valley. But hope wants you to walk towards the mountain of God, putting one foot in front of the other, no matter if it takes 40 days and 40 nights — which in the Bible means a very long time.
Hopelessness wants you to focus on your past. Hope wants you to focus on your future. Hopelessness wants you to focus on where you came from. How do you see yourself one year from now? Five years from now? Ten years from now? Once people start talking about their dream, the power of hope returns. I hear it in their voice. I see it in their eyes. I feel it in their body language. One day, Jim was in the racetrack watching a horserace. Before the first race, Jim was startled to see something he never saw before.
He saw a Catholic priest walk up to one of the racehorses, then sprinkled the horse with holy water, put his hand over its head and prayed over it.
When the race began, that horse bolted out like a rocket — never slowed down — and won that race! In the second race, Jim saw the priest walk up again to another horse — did the same thing — sprinkled holy water and prayed for the horse. And true enough, that horse came out number one. By the third race, Jim knew what to do. When the priest walked up to another horse, sprinkled it with holy water and prayed over it, he ran to the betting window — and bet all his lifesavings on that specific horse.
He ran back to watch the race. It walked out of the gate. Soon, it stumbled, fell to the ground and died. He ran down and looked for the priest.
I just bet all my lifesavings on that horse because you blessed it! Email: [email protected] 97 Difficult Emotions 2: Despair and Insecurity 98 The priest shook his head.
There are certain things that have already died in our life. Perhaps a loved one died. I watched a movie about a young man who was mountain climbing in Utah. For some reason, a huge boulder shifted — and his arm got pinned down between rocks.
He pulled his pocketknife and started chipping off the rock. But nothing he did worked to get himself unstuck. After three days, he ran out of food and water. After some time, he lost all feeling in his arm. It was like his arm had already died. This young man knew that if he wanted to walk out of there alive, he had to do the unthinkable. He had to cut off his arm.
He tied a tourniquet at the end of this arm and amputated himself. He walked down the mountain and many miles later was rescued and brought to the hospital.
That bold decision to cut off his dead arm saved his life. Email: [email protected] Heart Detox Is there anything dead in your life? Cut off what has died already — and walk out alive. Notice your car. When you drive your car, you look at two things: your rear-view mirror and your windshield. What do you notice? Compared to the windshield, your rear-view mirror is small. But sadly, I know of people who drive through life with their rear-view mirror as big as their windshield.
No wonder they cannot move forward! They cannot see their future because all they see is their past. Because ultimately, your God is in your future. God is already in your tomorrow, preparing a beautiful future for you. Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Matthew , 27 I want to teach you how to delete worry from your life. My big message? Turn your worry into worship.
Because you cannot worry and worship at the same time. It subtracts. Because worry is a thief. Email: [email protected] Difficult Emotions 3: Worry and Fear be in debt? May utang ang tatay mo. May utang ang kapatid mo. Paglaki mo, magkakautang ka rin. Pag namatay kami, mamanahin mo ang utang namin. Do you worry about your future?
Can you reserve a room for me in Anawim, our home for the abandoned elderly? Why an old maid? Never call yourself an old maid. Call yourself an independent lady or free woman. Call yourself WOW: a woman of worth. And why do you plan to be poor? Plan to be rich and generous. WOW can mean woman of wealth, too. Do you worry about your health? Worry is imagining the worst scenario in every situation in your life. I know of someone who is always catastrophizing his physical symptoms.
I have a migraine. I think I have a brain tumor. I feel pain in my back, I probably have cirrhosis of the liver. Because worry is a problem magnet. I just read a report about how chronic worrying makes our bodies sick. First of all, medical tests show that worry suppresses the immune system. It weakens your warrior cells. If you keep worrying, your body cannot fight disease.
Aside from that, worry causes digestive disorders, muscle tension, memory loss and heart disease. Worry will suck your energy dry.
Fact is, you have a limited amount of energy. Instead of pouring all your energy on worry, pour it on these three wonderful alternatives… Personal Copy of Michael Jan Parone Roxas Tolosa Leyte Email: [email protected] Difficult Emotions 3: Worry and Fear 1.
Wish Stop worrying, start wishing. Worrying is very different from planning. God is not a worrier; God is a planner. God is a master strategist. So God plans for the future. Imagination Is Powerful Do you know why worry is so destructive? And in the previous section, you learned that your imagination is one of most potent weapons God has given you. Listen to this absurdity: Worry is giving that amazing weapon to the enemy — so that the enemy can use it against you! Albert Einstein said your imagination is more powerful than your intellect.
Your intellect can only perceive reality, your imagination can produce reality. Email: [email protected] Heart Detox If reality is food, your intellect can only eat the food, but your imagination is the chef that cooks the food. Your imagination creates your future. Well, true enough, last month, my doctors discovered that I have ulcers. His worry. Worry is prophetic. Worry creates the very thing that you worry about. What you focus on flourishes.
Yes, you have more control over your reality than you realize. Because your perception creates your reality. And the universe, like a good waiter, will come to serve what you focus on in a silver platter.
Can I ask you a favor? Never, never, never. Now tell me. What are you thinking of, hmm? Instead of using your imagination to worry, use your imagination to wish. Use your imagination to dream. Use your imagination to visualize your desired future. I expect to be blessed! Worrying is imagining that bad things will happen to you while wishing is imagining that good things will happen to you.
When you worry, you focus on your problems. When you wish, you focus on your purpose. Because the universe will serve to you on a silver platter whatever you focus on. I urge you, stop worrying and start wishing! Start expecting good things to happen to you. In other words, I woke up that morning expecting to be blessed in some surprising way.
How, I had no idea. So we packed our bags and off we went. I gulped. I sighed. P7, was still a lot of money. At that precise moment, a tall man, wearing a nice coat and tie, walked out of the door behind the front desk. Immediately, I recognized him. He was a friend. And the wonderful thing?
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